Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:32:37 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: "Antti Rytsola" <raccoon@dlc.fi> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Router Purchase - the bottom line Message-ID: <199611191532.KAA07060@etinc.com>
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>Content-Description: Text >Content-Type: text/plain ; charset=iso-8859-1 >X-Zm-Decoding-Hint: mimencode -q -u > >> My original thinking was that I've seen disk fail more than anything >> on our FreeBsd servers so that I didn't feel comfortable with the >> idea of having a box with a disk running as a router. > > If I remember right the card is installed in to the machine but it's >not used by anything, just taking up some power. So why run anything important >on the machine? Just put some old 386 board on it without harddisks and e.g. >leave it on the hdd controller failure prompt or something.. Can you even BUY a '386 in the US? Dennis :-)
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